Television News

Study: Young people watch less TV (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 01:22 AM CST

Reuters - Young Americans just aren't watching TV like they used to.

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 01:00 AM CST

Reuters - HBO is hung up on "Hung."

Long-lost World Series game perfect start for MLB (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 12:57 AM CST

Reuters - The MLB Network will premiere on New Year's Day with the original telecast -- commercials and all -- of New York Yanees pitcher Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 baseball World Series.

Sci Fi expanding "Ghost Hunters" franchise (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 12:29 AM CST

Reuters - Sci Fi Channel is expanding its "Ghost Hunters" franchise through a multipart agreement that includes dozens of hours of reality programing.

Fox TV producers asked to trim budgets 2 percent (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 11:36 PM CST

AP - News Corp.'s 20th Century Fox Television studio has asked producers of shows such as Fox's "24" and "My Name is Earl," produced for NBC, to trim their budgets this season by 2 percent, a spokesman said Wednesday.

Comedy scribes, ABC start "Family" (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 10:42 PM CST

Reuters - ABC is welcoming "An American Family."

CNN's Headline News changing name to HLN (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 10:06 PM CST

Reuters - At the end of what will be a record year for viewership, Headline News is getting a name change.

Montag, Pratt nuptials questioned (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 08:05 PM CST

AP - "The Hills" personalities Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag recently went to a Beverly Hills courthouse to get married, but questions remained Wednesday about whether the service actually happened.

Paul McCartney, Britney Spears top "Idol" wish list (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 07:23 PM CST

Reuters - Former Beatle Paul McCartney and pop star Britney Spears are at the top of Simon Cowell's celebrity wish list as possible mentors on the upcoming season of "American Idol."

Honeymoon Over for Speidi's Fake Marriage? (E! Online)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 06:22 PM CST

E! Online - Brace yourselves, Hills fans: There's a chance that the Speidi wedding no one bought (unless you count whatever Us Weekly paid for that cover) may end up being legally binding after all.

Fan death made "Idol's" Cowell think "long and hard" (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 03:45 PM CST

Reuters - Acerbic "American Idol" judge Simon Cowell said on Wednesday the apparent suicide of a former contestant and obsessed fan forced him to think "long and hard" about his blunt comments to hopeless singers on the show.